[meteorite-list] Galactic Analytics Announcement

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:54:42 -0500
Message-ID: <0B1EA864F1C545F48097000540AD0334_at_ATARIENGINE2>

List, Chris,

I suspect the "Planetary Science Institute"
is meant, rather than the "Planetary Research
Institute." My suspicions were aroused by
going to the website of the Planetary Science
Institute and seeing a picture of Marc Fries
there.

http://www.psi.edu/



Sterling K. Webb.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Peterson" <clp at alumni.caltech.edu>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Galactic Analytics Announcement


> Planetary Research Institute?
>
> Chris
>
> *******************************
> Chris L Peterson
> Cloudbait Observatory
> http://www.cloudbait.com
>
> On 3/26/2013 2:21 PM, Marc Fries wrote:
>> Howdy ladies and gents
>>
>> The scientists at Galactic Analytics have been working on a project
>> behind the scenes and the time has come to announce it publicly. GA
>> will stop performing radar analyses of meteorite falls. The same
>> people will continue working on this project (don't worry!!), but we
>> are transferring operations from Galactic Analytics to the Planetary
>> Research Institute, a nonprofit research institution. We will
>> continue to perform analyses, but they will appear on a PSI web page,
>> and the "old" events will be transferred to the PSI website as well.
>> PSI will also offer rapid, affordable meteorite classification
>> services as well, picking up GA's efforts in that direction.
>>
>> -------
>>
>> WHAT THIS MEANS TO SUBSCRIPTION HOLDERS:
>>
>> GA has suspended the sale of annual subscriptions ahead of
>> transferring to PSI. The goal is to do away with subscriptions
>> entirely and make the radar data openly available to the public.
>> This will take some time, however, as alternative funding efforts are
>> underway. Since PSI is a nonprofit research institution, they can
>> accept private donations, NASA and other government funding, and
>> other sources of funding that were not available to GA. This will be
>> used to continue operations.
>> Your subscription will still be honored! Existing one-year
>> subscriptions will be allowed to expire over the course of the
>> ~one-year transition period. In the meanwhile, all data will be
>> available on the single-event basis to those without annual
>> subscriptions. The three-day wait for the single-event subscriptions
>> will no longer be used. At the end of the coming one-year period,
>> other funding should be in place and radar data will be openly
>> available.
>> GA's website will be transferred to PSI's servers soon, but there
>> should be no interruption in service. You'll have to update your
>> browser links, but that is all.
>>
>> -------
>>
>> ABOUT PSI:
>>
>> The Planetary Research Institute (http://www.psi.edu) is a widely
>> respected research institute based in Tucson, AZ that has been
>> actively engaged in planetary science and public outreach since 1972.
>> Roughly half of PSI's scientists live and work in Tucson, and the
>> rest are scattered across the US and around the world. PSI is a
>> flexible, responsive organization composed of dedicated and motivated
>> science professionals. At a time when most research institutes are
>> cutting back under budgetary pressures, PSI has continued to grow:
>>
>> http://tucsoncitizen.com/press-releases/2013/03/01/planetary-science-institute-opens-new-tucson-conference-center/
>>
>> PSI scientists perform research in a broad range of planetary science
>> and astronomy, and near-term plans include manned suborbital
>> spaceflight for astronomical observations:
>>
>> http://www.psi.edu/atsa
>>
>> --------
>>
>> METEORITE CLASSIFICATION:
>>
>> PSI will pick up GA's efforts to offer a rapid, affordable meteorite
>> classification service. A great deal of progress has been made in
>> this effort, and we anticipate that the service will commence in the
>> coming months although we do not have a solid date yet. Please stay
>> tuned.
>>
>> --------
>>
>> OTHER STUFF
>>
>> Dr. Marc Fries has accepted a job offer with NASA, working at the
>> meteorite curation office in Houston, TX. Dr. Fries will still work
>> on radar analyses on a part-time basis and has begun training PSI
>> personnel to join in the effort. In the end, there will be more
>> analysts working on locating meteorite falls, which means more
>> meteorites! PSI's personnel and expertise resources will be brought
>> to bear, allowing the project to grow more than it could under
>> Galactic Analytics. Dr. Vishnu Reddy and Dr. Lucille LeCorre of PSI
>> will take leading roles in the new effort.
>>
>> This is going to be a good thing. We get to carry on with a new
>> period of growth, training more analysts and getting more people
>> involved. The meteorite analysis effort will grow into an expansive,
>> self-supporting entity that truly does bring planetary science "down
>> to Earth" into schools, museums and collections. We hope to expand
>> meteorite recovery into a multifaceted science experience, with
>> outreach efforts in the communities where meteorite falls occur,
>> in-house analytical services at PSI, and inclusive research and
>> recovery efforts that include scientists, meteorite hunters,
>> hobbyists, and the general public.
>>
>> This is going to be fun!
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Galactic Analytics LLC
>>
>> Please direct any questions at chief_scientist at galacticanalytics.com
>
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